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Much love to the rural Minnesotans helping THEIR neighbors, too. Bears repeating that while Minneapolis gets the most attention, it's exactly the same situation in St. Paul and very similar in many suburbs and smaller towns around the state (and, obviously, outside MN)

“”Investigative scoops” still have a place at CBS, but they’re being crowded out in favor of “scoops of ideas” and “scoops of explanation.” Weiss is fully convinced that this is the future. The problem is that it’s already the present—and it sucks.”

Don Lemon was not the only journalist arrested -- Georgia Fort was as well. Don Lemon has the resources to come out of this just fine. Georgia Fort may not. Let's make sure the focus is on both of them.

Legal asylum seeker, no criminal record, working two jobs, dragged out of smashed car and kidnapped by ICE as his US citizen newborn cries in a car seat in the freezing cold in Maine and his wife who barely speaks English pleads for help. WTAF

this is bad for lots of reasons, but not least--why the fuck are the federal bureau of prisons agents doing this work? abolitionists are once again right: what we are experiencing now is a direct result of the carceralization of the nation--the whole fucking country is a prison now

So fucking angry at all the emotionally disregulated assholes who believe they do this in my name.

i continue to ask what people are still doing on the fascist white supremacy platform that generates child pornography

An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.

I'm starting to think the Trumpist mastery of propaganda is failing them. The DHS agents posing this way makes it look like they're ashamed of themselves.

This is a good piece. "The reason that authoritarians like Trump, Miller, and Noem love misinformation is not really that they expect you to believe it. It’s that they want to fill you with doubt. " (Obligatory note that ICE has in no way been defeated here in MN; things are bad as ever.)

We had eradicated this disease. And now because of targeted disinformation, children, immunocompromised people, elderly folks, and so many others become victims in this proxy war and we have a new avoidable pandemic.

Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.

Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

One Butthole After Another

americans hate it when they're shown on tv doing something cool

A reminder that things in Minnesota are a long way from being over

Brilliant piece by @adamserwer.bsky.social:

The brilliant organization in Minneapolis was key, the multiple videos were a godsend & the clear, unfussy headlines and instant, lucid media analysis of the video was also crucial, to spread the word— w/out activism, documentation & media all fully functional, nobody will know about these tragedies

#GVerse Bravo #London just joined #Minnesota! Trafalgar Square filled with protesters demanding justice for Alex Pretti while opposing Farage. When state violence goes unchecked, the world notices. Solidarity doesn’t stop at borders. 🇬🇧

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

The people of Minnesota did that. Not Schumer and Jeffries, not Walz and Frey, not the standard-bearers of decorum. The People.

This is not about Bovino or Noem. They need to go. This is about Stephen Miller - he has been masterminding and leading Trump's immigration regime of terror. Until Miller is gone from the White House, nothing will change. As long as Miller is there - he will run the show as the de facto POTUS.

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

A major newspaper publishing guide to help people identify the munitions their government is using against them is a real "Late Republic America" timepeice that future historians will comment on.

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

Hearing Greg Bovino has been carried off by a hawk

any pundit or politician who ever unironically said “the woke mind virus” is a) real and b) a problem, should be yeeted. we do not need your opinion anymore. you had a chance, you showed us youre a moron and now its time for you to slink away

This is devastating. And also reads like a funeral for the meaning of the flag itself.

And don’t forget the additional $35 million spent to market the documentary

Powerful street art projected onto an ICE building in Los Angeles

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

The media should cover sport the way they cover the state murder of civilians: ‘Jannik Sinner appeared to win the French Open yesterday after what supporters say was a comeback from being two sets down.’

This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

A protest action from NBA and NFL players today (NHL players are largely beyond hope) would not require more bravery than this.

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.

Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.

This is sickening. This is horrifying. This is infuriating. We are under attack. There is no spin to this.

An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all: The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files

A doctor who witnessed the shooting submits a sworn declaration in federal litigation to halt ICE surge in MN: "I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind." and "The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back." Read storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

The thing about these people lying so blatantly to our faces is that a) they think they can do that because nobody will hold them accountable and b) you can only do this so many times and be right until the time you’re wrong bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Demonstration popping off now inside Dilley ICE detention in Texas in response to the news from Minneapolis and the mistreatment of 5 yr old, Liam Ramos. ✊✊✊ 80% of the detainees, 1500 people many of them children are chanting and disrupting prison operation. x.com/EricLeeAtty/...

Real talk from Minnesota: "I feel like we're performing CPR on what may already be a corpse: the Constitution" Prove this wrong, fellow Americans, please. MN can stand up, protect each other, witness & alert you. But we alone can't control the feds. This is a USA issue.

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."